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I knew it!

I knew all the kids were biohacks.

The last one is a clone

Which is why that child is his favorite

@cstross @MishaVanMollusq @ardenthistorian.bsky.social The Great North Road was not an instruction manual.

@GyrosGeier @MishaVanMollusq @ardenthistorian.bsky.social What has this thread got to do with the A1(M)?

@cstross @MishaVanMollusq @ardenthistorian.bsky.social there's a Peter F Hamilton book that involves a billionaire who has had fertility treatment with the side effect that his genes are completely dominant, so all his offspring are clones.

@GyrosGeier @MishaVanMollusq @ardenthistorian.bsky.social That's not how meiosis works (at least not in vertebrates) …

@cstross @GyrosGeier @ardenthistorian.bsky.social remember Manchile in one of @rudytheelder ‘s Bopper Novels?

@MishaVanMollusq @cstross @GyrosGeier @ardenthistorian.bsky.social

Manchile in WETWARE was inspired by Phil Dick's "The Golden Man." And I wanted him to do the opposite of humans putting their minds inro robots...he was a (meat-based) robot who put his mind into a human fetus by having extra DNA. As he put it, "Let's miscegenate, baby, I've got two-tail sperm!".

Possible pick-up line?

@rudytheelder @cstross @GyrosGeier @ardenthistorian.bsky.social It was the news article about Elon Musk becoming a dealer for his own “perfect” sperm that made me think of Manchile, then the other item about him impregnating his female employees.
The only option for the 14-20 spawnlings is that he’s secretly an Post Abraham Era Jewish Patriarch.
Whoa…wouldn’t it derail his TechBroeh Nazi Schtick if he and his extended Racist Family were Jewish?

@MishaVanMollusq @rudytheelder @GyrosGeier @ardenthistorian.bsky.social Those creeps are not ideologically coherent. But if you view them through the lens of their apparent belief that status is reflected by how many women, cattle, and guns you own then it makes sense. (Ludicrous, abhorrent, late-neolithic warrior god-king values that have nevertheless persisted into an age that is fundmentally incompatible with such mores.)

@cstross @rudytheelder @GyrosGeier @ardenthistorian.bsky.social

Elon Musk kinda acts like a virus . A Meat Virus. Or a Von Neumann Machine.

Burroughs has several similar super rich guys in his works…which is where i first encountered the concept.
They really can’t abide the existence of other people…which may be a root cause of Elon’s living in a sim delusion,
now fueled by Vitamin !K.

One true moment of compasion or empathy would crash his personality and he’d go enraged mandrill

@jmtd @cstross @MishaVanMollusq if I remember correctly it now leads through a portal to another planet, but sections in the middle are still in various planning stages.